Poetry audiobooks

Pickles of Love

By: Joseph Batte

Narrated by: Joseph Batte

Length: 1 hour 12 minutes

Abridged: No

We have been here before, surroundings are familiar. They are crashing flicks of love into pieces. We all know, love is a rugged series of crafty waves, meant to provide calmness. But, but, it resorts to butchering anything alive.Pour yourself a hot cup of water from the Mediterranean, mix in dead dried leaves or seeds, quenching your lust, and... Read more

Doar trăiri. Versuri

By: Adrian Moroșan

Narrated by: Adrian Moroșan

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Poezii pentru toți despre sentimente de dragoste, ură, tristețe, vulnerabilitate, patriotism și multe altele. Cel puțin câteva dintre aceste poezii vă vor aminti de emoțiile pe care le-ați simțit cel puțin o dată în viață. Acest volum combină poezii scrise într-un stil clasic cu poezii scrise în stil contemporan și se referă la sentimentele care... Read more

Poetry Of The Geek

By: Dean Rankine

Narrated by: Ben Sorensen

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Comic Book Artist and Pop Culture Geek, Dean Rankine doesn't know anything about writing poetry. But a little thing like that isn't going to stop him from writing a poem once a week for a year, putting those poems into a book and sending them out into the universe."Dean's poetry is like watching someone dragged upside down by a bolting robot... Read more

The Phoenix and the Turtle / The Passionate Pilgrim

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Gerard Logan

Length: 35 minutes

Abridged: No

The Passionate Pilgrim, a collection of beautiful verses by Shakespeare and other contemporary poets, is here paired with the Bard's intriguing allegorical work The Phoenix and the Turtle, which focuses on the love and death of two birds a Phoenix and a Turtle Dove. Mysterious and haunting, these rarely recorded works are richly rewarding,... Read more

The Rape of Lucrece

By: William Shakespeare

Narrated by: Gerard Logan

Length: 1 hour 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The Rape of Lucrece is a brilliant, brutal narrative poem giving an account of the terrible crime of rape and its dreadful consequences for victim and perpetrator. As ever, though, Shakespeare goes beyond the obvious, following the ramifications of the crime wherever they take him, shining a light on a band of human-behaviour encompassing the... Read more

Now We Can Talk Openly About Men

By: Martina Evans

Narrated by: Martina Evans & Colin Still

Length: 1 hour 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Martina Evans's Now We Can Talk Openly about Men is a pair of dramatic monologues, snapshots of the lives of two women in 1920s Ireland. The first, Kitty Donovan, is a dressmaker in the time of the Irish War of Independence. The second, Babe Cronin, is set in 1924, shortly after the Irish Civil War. Kitty is a dressmaker with a taste for... Read more

Gilgamesh Retold

By: Jenny Lewis

Narrated by: Jenny Lewis & Colin Still

Length: 1 hour 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Jenny Lewis relocates Gilgamesh to its earlier, oral roots in a Sumerian society where men and women were more equal, the reigning deity of Gilgamesh’s city, Uruk, was female (Inanna), only women were allowed to brew beer and keep taverns and women had their own language – emesal. With this shift of emphasis, Lewis captures the powerful allure... Read more

Pearl

By: Jane Draycott

Narrated by: Jane Draycott & Colin Still

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

In a dream landscape radiant with jewels, a father sees his lost daughter on the far bank of a river: ‘my pearl, my girl’. One of the great treasures of the British Library, the fourteenth-century poem Pearl is a work of poetic brilliance; its account of loss and consolation has retained its force across six centuries. Jane Draycott in her new... Read more

Ned Finally Died

By: Denise M. Jones

Narrated by: Denise M. Jones

Length: 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Life is short. Too short. Sometimes made shorter.​Ned has been in this place before, at least five times he can recall. But he's never arrived to this place first.​Today he did... Ned Finally Died is an Adult Children's Book that looks at giving hope during dark times. Read more

How To Write a Love Poem

By: HowExpert & Howard Moore

Narrated by: Weston Gritt

Length: 2 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

If you want to learn how to write a love poem, then check out "How To Write a Love Poem" written by a love poetry enthusiast.Love poetry can be about romantic love but far more. It can be about love of country, of a people or nation. It can be about love of ideals such as freedom and peace. Poetry can be rhymed or written in one of many... Read more

How To Write Poetry For Teenagers

By: HowExpert & Deidre Simpson

Narrated by: Maren McGuire

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: No

If you want to learn how to write poetry and you are a teenager, then get "How To Write Poetry For Teenagers" written by a poetry teacher who has experience teaching poetry to kids.Those who want to learn how to write poetry should consult this how-to guide. Without any previous knowledge, experience, or training, any teen can write poetry. Here... Read more

Fond Farewells

By: Rebecca Trowbridge

Narrated by: Rebecca Trowbridge

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Ease the heartbreak when saying farewell.Fond Farewells is an award-winning collection of four illustrated poem stories that explore different moods of goodbye: Leaving and hoping for the best, Leaving on a trip then returning, Moving away and keeping in touch, and Saying a very final goodbye.Every story, however, has a positive thought to help... Read more

Songs of a Sourdough

By: Robert W Service & Vanessa Grant

Narrated by: Vanessa Grant

Length: 1 hour 45 minutes

Abridged: No

The Bard of the Yukon ~ Banker, Hobo, and Klondike PoetA downloadable PDF of Klondike Gold Rush illustrations is available on the Resources page athttps://BookHip.com/FTCLVRTRobert William Service was born in Lancashire, Engand in 1874. His mother was an heiress and his father a bank cashier. He was the eldest of 10 children.When Service was 4... Read more

O–(ezekiel's wife)

By: C. R. Grimmer

Narrated by: C. R. Grimmer

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: No

This is the Audiobook version of O–(ezekiel's wife), published by GASHER Journal and Press (https://www.gasherjournal.com/product-page/o-ezekiel-s-wife). Judy Twedt, Digital Sound Artist, edited these tracks and added in found and synthesized "sounds of climate change," creating a collaborative poetry album. About the collection: O’s (they/them... Read more

# Wuhan

By: Sophia Behal

Narrated by: Sophia Behal

Length: 26 minutes

Abridged: No

#WUHAN“Empowering Poems and Pros-a about feelings and such…”No doubt we were all afraid of an epidemy. The award nominated audiobook deals mainly with the fears poeple in Wuhan had to live throughduring early February 2020 when no one knew if covid-19 is as deadly as SARS.Find some alarming and soothing words for your soul. And please let's wear... Read more

Works and Days

By: Hesiod

Narrated by: Victor Craig

Length: 49 minutes

Abridged: No

‘The Works and Days’ is a didactic poem of some 800 lines composed by the ancient Greek poet Hesiod. The poem deals with daily life and work, interwoven with allegory, fable and personal history. It also serves as a farmer's almanac, through which Hesiod instructs his brother Perses in the agricultural arts, and as a compendium of advice for... Read more

Broken Graduate

By: T. R Jamison

Narrated by: T.R. Jamison

Length: 2 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Broken Graduate is an illuminating book of poetry that explains and illustrates the true realities of what it's like being a college graduate. This book captures how the exciting life of dreams, success, and wealth isn't exactly how it was depicted by parents and professors.Author, T.R Jamison, takes his readers along his two-year transitional... Read more

Conversations After Midnight

By: Kelvin Bueckert

Narrated by: Kelvin Bueckert

Length: 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Life sucks! How did we end up like this? What am I doing here anyway? Nothing ever changes! This is a collection of poems that explore the hard questions...this is a collection of ideas that were born in suffering. Yes, this a challenging read...yet, in the end, there is also inspiration and hope to be found here. Recommended for anyone who... Read more

Uplifted By Love

By: Richard Daniels

Narrated by: Ryan McGregor

Length: 18 minutes

Abridged: No

This collection of poems titled "Uplifted by Love " is a collection of poems inspired by the author's quest for spiritual enlightenment . It affords the author an opportunity to share his perceptions about life; the high concepts of love, purity and the divining of the Holy Grail whose origin is not of this world.And when we speak of love and... Read more

Battle Of Thought

By: Annheete Oakley

Narrated by: Kevin Hung-Liang

Length: 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Ask yourself, what makes life worth living?Our existence many has swirls and flings followed ups down; mountains, canyons, and rivers to cross. Understandably, we cannot unfailingly feel fulfilled. We feel depressed at times. That, too, is all right; the journey of life should not be marred by sadness; instead, we should place great emphasis on... Read more

The Prophet

By: Kahlil Gibran

Narrated by: Mark Frost

Length: 1 hour 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Al Mustafa had waited twelve years in the city of Orphalese for the ship that was to return him to the isle of his birth. On the way to the harbor, he is stopped by a group of people with whom he discusses topics such as life and the human condition.The Prophet is a collection of 26 prose poetry fables written in English by the Lebanese-American... Read more

The Lust

By: B.T. Singer

Narrated by: B.T. Singer

Length: 4 minutes

Abridged: No

B.T. Singer's ode to his pet and their sexy, romantic -- and kinky -- connection will leave you weak in the knees in more ways than one. Enjoy this erotic audio journey set to sultry music, "Void, Smoke, Dust, Night" by Bisou de l'enfant sauvage (copyright 2018 Creative Commons License, available on Free Music Archive). Read more

TE REREKA WAIRUA O POURAKAHUA

By: Jeffrey Addison

Narrated by: Pourakahua performed by Te Whaitaima Te Whare

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: No

E AHAKU NUI, E KĀ RAKATIRA O KĀ HAU MAHA  TĒNEI TE MIHI KI A KOUTOU KATOA.ANEI TĒTAHI PŪRAKAU MAI I TE WAKA O TĀKITIMU. HE PŪRAKU E PĀ ANA TĒTAHI MANU WAIRUAME TŌNA REREKA KI AOTEAROA. KO KIMI IA KI TŌNA PORI HŌU, I TE AO PŌHATU.  NAU MAI, TAUTĪ MAI E HOA MĀ.The Māori language version of the story evolved from a theatrical puppet show by TORO... Read more

Be Straight with Me

By: Emily Dalton

Narrated by: Kate Rudd

Length: 2 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Be Straight with Me is an unforgettable memoir-in-verse about a love that blurs the boundaries of gender and sexuality—told from the perspective of a young, straight woman who finds herself in a serious relationship with her gay male best friend. With unabashed honesty and piercing emotional clarity, Emily Dalton brings to life this timely, true... Read more